Manual Postprocessing (Archiving Workbench) 

Use

After executing all the Archiving Workbench (CA-GTF-TS-GMA) tasks required for your specific project, you must carry out the manual postprocessing described below. Although these activities cannot be started with the Workbench, they are a prerequisite for creating an archiving object of a deliverable standard.

Prerequisites

In your role as the developer of the archiving object, you must execute all the activities required for your project.

In addition, the developer on the application side must perform all the activities described in the Including an Archiving Object (Archiving Workbench) in the Application section.

Procedure

You must also execute the following tasks in order to complete an archiving object:

 

Current Adjustments

The consulting note no. 644365 describes important current adjustments that could not be described in this documentation.

We advise you to read the most up-to-date version of this note.

 

Explaining the Use of API Function Modules

Check with the respective application group to see which API modules are required.

 

Creating Documentation

Document the following programs:

·       Package profile formation program (pre-step)

·       Analysis program

·       Write program

·       Delete program

·       Reload program

You can use the documentation templates available in transaction SE61 in the General Text document class. Their technical names are as follows:

§       ARCHIVING_PRE_STEP_REPORT

§       ARCHIVING_ANALYZE_REPORT

§       ARCHIVING_WRITE_REPORT

§       ARCHIVING_DELETE_REPORT

§       ARCHIVING_RELOAD_REPORT

You must also document your own API function modules.

 

Implementing the Strategy Module for the Pre-Step

The Archiving Workbench enables you to generate the pre-step program. However, you are responsible for implementing the actual package profile formation module. The strategy that is most suitable is determined by the type of attributes used to form packages and their value distribution. For more information on this program, refer to the Pre-Step section of the SAP Library.

 

Developing Read Programs for Generated Data

Decide whether you wish to develop your own read program for your archiving object. If you use the Archive Information System you can implement a business-related drilldown report on the archive dataset and display the individual documents found. You can use the Archive File Browser for a purely technical display of archived data (structured on the basis of archive files). However, this display is only suitable for system administrators.

 

Including the Package Concept

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      1.      Insert the new package, which was generated by the Archiving Workbench to integrate the archiving object, into your package hierarchy.

      2.      Specify all the use accesses required for the new package.

      3.      Define your own package interface for the new package. On this package interface, include all the API function modules you have programmed and wish to make available to other packages.

Make sure all data types on the interface of these function modules are included on the package interface.

      4.      Ensure that the newly defined package interface is included in the higher-level packages.

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Extending the Area Menu

Include the following transactions in your area menu, under the name Archiving for example.

·       AFX_CUST_CHECK: This checks the settings in the global control of archiving and the residence time Customizing settings for all archiving objects generated with the Archiving Workbench.
You must program the checks with the help of the Archiving Workbench.

·       SARA: Archive Administration

For more information on this, refer to the application help for this transaction.

·       AFX_MONITOR:Archiving monitor

For more information on this, refer to the Archiving Monitor section or the application help for this transaction.

·       Under the title of Archiving Objects, you must assign the following transactions for each archiving object generated with the Archiving Workbench.

·       A transaction to start the pre-step program

You cannot start this archiving subprocess using the standard SAP Archive Administration (transaction SARA).

·       A transaction to display archived data

This transaction is not generated with the Archiving Workbench.

You can find more information on this procedure in the Edit Area Menu section of the SAP Library.

 

Result

You have created an archiving object and included it in the application. This means you can now archive data records for this archiving object. For more information on the data archiving process based on the Archiving Workbench, refer to the Data Archiving Process (Archiving Workbench) section of the SAP Library.